Speed 2: Cruise Control (ENGLISH)

Speed 2: Cruise Control (Mark Mancina). The score of Speed 2: Cruise Control is a selection of good themes, without managing to be at the level of those of the first part, not through the fault of the composer, but because the frantic pace of the bus of Speed is seen more than stopped on having moved the action of the asphalt of the city to the open sea, where, inevitably, the speed and the risk do not acquire its real dramatic quality until the ship comes to firm land. In spite of it, while the action is "on the water", the score combines good themes of suspense, action and heroism. Speed's main theme is insinuated in some moments, though without managing to develop so attractive as in the first film. The themes with Caribbean touch are an original contribution according enough to what the action of the movie offers, though there begins in lack someone that was appearing in the bootleg that was circulating through Internet for years. Though this Caribbean themes are good themes, its presence denotes clearly that Speed's dramatic action has been replaced with comical action in Speed 2, which reduces seriousness and credibility to this second part.

The score was released the year 2010, being 1997 the year of production of the movie in which an album of songs was released. The unique reference to Mark Mancina's score in the above mentioned edition was the theme Speed TK-Re-mix, a remix of the Speed main theme. Mark Mancina must have felt certain frustration on having seen that a remix of the main theme of Speed elaborated by another artist was included in the album that would be released, whereas his own music composed for the movie would not do it. Apart from this theme, the album of songs is a good compilation (almost the best of the movie) that transports you perfectly to a peaceful Caribbean vacation state aboard the Seabourn Legend. Among all the themes, is necessary to emphasize the The Police's Every Breath You Take's slow version, featured in this case by Betty Wright, and the ballad Make Tonight Beautiful, composed by Diane Warren, a real specialist in composing ballads for films.

The most curious detail of the score is that Mancina was trying to alter the famous 20th Century Fox initial fanfare and to mix it directly with the initial theme of the movie, Motorcycle Chase. In the first moment, the studio was not sure to distort its famous logo, even more when, in the recent history before Speed 2, only David Newman's score for The War of Roses and Elliot Goldenthal 's score for Alien 3 had the license of initiating the music from the Fox logo. In later movies, as X-Men: Days of Future Past, this idea has also been implemented.

In short, Speed 2: Cruise Control soundtrack is a good score, which it have should to be released together with the soundtrack of songs, even more being a movie destined for the great public, successor of a great success as it was Speed three years before, both for the movie and for Mark Mancina's score.